Tax comparatists tend to bemoan the grim status of their chosen field. Complaints are aimed both at the scarcity of decent comparative legal tax scholarship, and at the lack of a theoretical foundation for the study of comparative tax law. The purpose of this Article is to portray a more...

In January 2021, the cabinet of Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands resigned after the revelation that the Dutch tax administration had infringed fundamental rights of an estimated 35,000 welfare recipients. The Dutch childcare allowance scandal or toeslagenaffaire unveiled the ways in...